TUCKER, Ga. — Researchers at the University of Delaware have successfully developed a first-generation prototype of an imaging system to determine fertilization and gender of chicken embryos.
The system uses machine vision hardware and algorithms in a light environment to image eggs during the first 30 hours of incubation. The machine proved to be 89 percent accurate for fertilization and 76 percent accurate for sex determination in these early studies.
The process has the potential to be very useful for the poultry industry, allowing removal of infertile eggs from incubation and separation of eggs according to the sex of the. . .
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